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Re: non-atheism

From:Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>
Date:Thursday, September 19, 2002, 21:21
--- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote:

> > > Well, I suspect I'm not entirely alone in > > > thinking that Gods and ethical duties both > > > belong to the immaterial. > > > >I don't see religion or gods (or > >Gods for those that prefer) are prerequisites for > >ethics. > > I don't think that religion (in the usual sense) is > a prerequisite for > ethics. I do however argue that consistent > materialism has to deny both.
Why is this? I can see that it would most likely deny religion (at least religion in a spiritual sense, the way a dictionary might define it). Not sure I'd agree that materialists are necessarily unethical, though.
> >You said the mental part of the universe > >follows natural laws [please reread what you wrote > >above]; _that's_ what I'm aiming at. I want to know > >what you mean by this.
> What I mean by it: There could conceiveably be set > of laws, similar to the > laws of physics, that determine the developments and > interactions of the > mental part of the universe, and presumeably it's > interactions with the > material part too.
OK, that explains.
> Andreas
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